Antonym: excitable. Similar words: sedated, antedate, predator, predation, predatory, date, candidate, update. Meaning: [sɪ'deɪt] 
v. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to. adj. 1. characterized by dignity and propriety 2. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
v. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to. adj. 1. characterized by dignity and propriety 2. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises. (1) We spent a sedate evening at home.
(2) We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace.
(3) The wedding was rather a sedate occasion.
(4) She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins.
(5) Betty is a sedate girl.
(6) A vet was called to sedate the animal.
(7) Today's celebrations have been altogether more sedate.
(8) We set off again at a more sedate pace.
(9) We continued our walk at a sedate pace .
(10) Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
(11) The speed limit in many areas is a sedate 55 mph.
(12) Overall, the wedding was a sedate affair.
(13) In the end I got another doctor to sedate the poor man.
(14) Still, I was fairly sedate compared to the man sitting a couple of seats away.
(15) Her London life was sedate, almost mundane.
(16) She behaves frivolously[sentencedict.com], she is not at all sedate.
(17) A more sedate option is the lovely old steamship TSS Earnslaw.
(18) They plan to sedate the giant mammal with a tranquilizer.
(19) The fight against a chemical storage site has transformed a normally sedate village into a battleground.
(20) After the accident, the doctor gave her some pills to sedate her.
(21) The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot.
(22) The overnight sleeper to Edinburgh, popular with honeymoon couples, was a sedate and leisurely way to travel.
(23) So while a Hilfiger presentation can sometimes transform into an unruly party, a Nautica show remains sedate and serious.
(24) She watched his black, angular figure move at a sedate, clerical pace, across the grass.
(25) A protest by a group of cyclists calling for bike lanes brought huge cheers from a usually sedate Santiago street crowd.
(26) Everybody downtown agreed that, if anything, Chicago had become even more sedate.
(27) The fairground, too, has rides to suit all ages - some scary, some sedate.
(28) The call, it emerges, is to unbridled love, something that this sedate day-time society was not willing to permit.
(29) Although the engine holds a world speed record, its arrival in the Cotswolds was a little more sedate.
(30) The authors are intensely polite and agreeable, rendering the discussions somewhat rehearsed and far too sedate.
More similar words: sedated, antedate, predator, predation, predatory, date, candidate, update, mandate, to date, out of date, inundate, up to date, validate, date from, elucidate, accommodate, invalidate, intimidate, date back to, dilapidated, one day, medal, pedant, pedantry, pedagogy, pedantic, ayurveda, in the dark, pedagogue.